She graduated from St. Henry High School and then earned her bachelor's degree from the Dayton School of Practical Nursing on Sept. 14, 1969. She operated a sheet metal press at Kennedy Manufacturing for nine years before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1983. She served as a Flight Operation Coordinator for four years and left with honorable discharge.

In 1988 she moved to Maine, where she worked as a licensed practical nurse at a hospital in Ellsworth. She then worked at a VA clinic in Bangor, Maine.

Services are 1 p.m. Saturday in East Orland, Maine.

Memorials may be made to The Sjogrens Syndrome Foundation.

Arrangements are being handled by Mitchell-Tweedie Funeral Home, Bucksport, Maine.